Toronto Hydro Wifi

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:43:53PM +0000, Erebus wrote:
>> And what kind of hardware are they using on those lightpoles? (as usual
>> I'm wondering brand and type)
>
> The FAQ says Siemens provided most of the hardware involved.
>
> It also says you could use it as your home internet connection if you
> are in the area, although it also says the connection times out after 15
> minutes of inactivity, so that kind of rules out using it as a useful
> connection if every time you want to do something, you have to launch a
> browser to login before using other programs.  I think they will need to
> fix that stupidity somehow before it actually becomes useful for
> anything but occational use on the go.

       I cannot imagine having 15 minutes of inactivity. Between
       checking mail and newsgroups, my network connection is never
       idle that long.

-- 
    Chris F.A. Johnson                      <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
    ===================================================================
    Author:
    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wini/Mailing_lists